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Bill Howe
Researcher at University of Washington
Publications - 180
Citations - 6927
Bill Howe is an academic researcher from University of Washington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Visualization & Data management. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 168 publications receiving 5653 citations. Previous affiliations of Bill Howe include Portland State University & Drexel University.
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HaLoop: efficient iterative data processing on large clusters
TL;DR: HaLoop is presented, a modified version of the Hadoop MapReduce framework that is designed to serve iterative applications and dramatically improves their efficiency by making the task scheduler loop-aware and by adding various caching mechanisms.
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SkewTune: mitigating skew in mapreduce applications
TL;DR: The results show that SkewTune can significantly reduce job runtime in the presence of skew and adds little to no overhead in the absence of skew.
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Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations
TL;DR: It is found that Voyager facilitates exploration of previously unseen data and leads to increased data variable coverage, and the need to balance rapid exploration and targeted question-answering for visualization tools is distill.
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Voyager 2: Augmenting Visual Analysis with Partial View Specifications
Kanit Wongsuphasawat,Zening Qu,Dominik Moritz,Riley Chang,Felix Ouk,Anushka Anand,Jock D. Mackinlay,Bill Howe,Jeffrey Heer +8 more
TL;DR: This work presents Voyager 2, a mixed-initiative system that blends manual and automated chart specification to help analysts engage in both open-ended exploration and targeted question answering and contributes two partial specification interfaces.
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The BigDAWG Polystore System
Jennie Duggan,Aaron J. Elmore,Michael Stonebraker,Magda Balazinska,Bill Howe,Jeremy Kepner,Samuel Madden,David Maier,Timothy G. Mattson,Stan Zdonik +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a new view of federated databases is presented to address the growing need for managing information that spans multiple data models. And the authors propose a polystore architecture, which is designed to unify querying over multiple models.